engaged in war. But the traditions of war 

 and the physical strength to gain victories 

 are very different things. Other things be- 

 ing equal, the nation which has known least 

 of war is the one most likely to develop the 

 "strong battalions" with whom victory 

 must rest. 



As Americans we are more deeply inter- 

 ested in the fate of our mother-country than 

 in that of the other nations of Europe. 



What shall we say of England and of her 

 relation to the reversed selection of war? 



Statistics we have none and no evidence of 

 tangible decline that Enghshmen will not 

 indignantly repudiate. When the London 

 press in the vacation season fills its columns 

 with editorials on English degeneration, it 

 is something else to which these journalists 

 refer. Their problem is that of the London 

 slums, of sweat-shops and child-labor, of 

 wasting overwork and of lack of nutrition, of 

 premature old age and of sodden drunk- 

 enness, — influences which bring about the 

 degeneration of the individual, the ineffi- 

 ciency of the social group, but which for the 

 most part leave no trace in heredity and are 



The 

 Human 



Harvest 



What of 

 England? 



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